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[a]Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,
(A)Because you went up to your father’s bed;
Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

(B)Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Their swords are implements of violence.
(C)Let my soul not enter into their council;
Let not my glory be united with their assembly;
Because in their anger they killed [b]men,
And in their self-will they hamstrung [c]oxen.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:4 Or Boiling over; lit Recklessness
  2. Genesis 49:6 Lit a man
  3. Genesis 49:6 Lit an ox